After leaving alternative care system, youth often experience different difficulties and homelessness is often one of them. The aim of this study was to examine young care leavers experience of homelessness through their description of leaving care process and the beginning of homelessness, characteristics of life in homeless shelters and strategies they undertake to exit homelessness. Data collected from semi-structured interviews with 6 young adults with history of alternative care who were living in homeless shelters in Zagreb are presented concerning following themes: in-care experience and the process of getting out of care; entering the world of homelessness; life in a homeless shelter; social relations inside and outside the homeless shelter and leaving homelessness. Most of the participants had unstable in-care experience and their transition to adulthood was not planned. Unemployment, insufficient financial resources, criminal record and alcohol dependence were key factors to enter homelessness. Among unemploynment and unsufficient financial resources, their everyday life in shelter is marked with deficient contacts with people outside the shelter. Youth believe that the most important factors for being able to leave homeless shelter are finding a job and stabile and secure accommodation.